I remember when XBOX Live was coming out they had online ads where they showed a person being notified about a friend being in game on MSN messenger and his cellphone.
I am not a big XBOX live user (though I forgot to unsubscribe from the beta and they charged me again d'oh) but I have not heard about MSN messenger ever getting that feature. Does MSN messenger have a feature like the one I mentioned above?
If not then did they back off because of this patent?
As far as I know XBOX live has its own buddy list that allows people to voice chat and join each others games. Does Yahoo want to go after MS too?
What possible harm was Xfire doing to Yahoo any way? This is nothing but a big company bullying a small harmless company.
If I understand it correctly its not just a plain email. It is a scanned signed PDF file that will be electronically transfered after being approved.
Those can be forged but if they keep count on both ends of the number of approved votes then there really shouldn't be a problem.
If there is a number difference.. however.. then would they have to throw all the email votes out?
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I remember when XBOX Live was coming out they had online ads where they showed a person being notified about a friend being in game on MSN messenger and his cellphone.
I am not a big XBOX live user (though I forgot to unsubscribe from the beta and they charged me again d'oh) but I have not heard about MSN messenger ever getting that feature. Does MSN messenger have a feature like the one I mentioned above?
If not then did they back off because of this patent?
As far as I know XBOX live has its own buddy list that allows people to voice chat and join each others games. Does Yahoo want to go after MS too?
What possible harm was Xfire doing to Yahoo any way? This is nothing but a big company bullying a small harmless company.
Do you mean EB Games?
They should have used the dual xeon pocket knife.
If I understand it correctly its not just a plain email. It is a scanned signed PDF file that will be electronically transfered after being approved. Those can be forged but if they keep count on both ends of the number of approved votes then there really shouldn't be a problem. If there is a number difference.. however.. then would they have to throw all the email votes out?